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Try: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/07/23/157250870/sally-ride-first-american-woman-in-space-is-dead http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/07/23/15

• temuze 14y ago
  And on hn: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4283217 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4283217
• skystorm 14y ago
  > [...] a long journey that started in 1977 when the Ph.D. candidate answered an ad seeking astronauts for NASA missions. Somehow that just blows my mind, become an astronaut simply by responding to an ad in a student newspaper. Oh, the early days of space travel... :)